Our Dells have been coming in with 2 partitions, I think WinNT is installed in partition 2.
TSM can't deal with the partition information; if it isn't stored in the registry or in a file, TSM doesn't see it. Which is why you must recreate any partitioning yourself, before you do the restores. One thing you can do to protect yourself: AFTER you do your restore of the files and the system object, BEFORE you reboot, just use NOTEPAD to LOOK at the C:\boot.ini file. Make sure it points to the partition where you reinstalled WINNT. I also have seen the message before about Windows File Protected files; we also ignored it (I don't understand it - TSM is supposed to be restoring the Windows File PRotected files, yes?) But it caused no problems here, either. ************************************************************************ Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Scott Adams/Dilbert ************************************************************************ -----Original Message----- From: Rushforth, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BMR TSM restore of W2K client The Redbook was written with 4.1.2 client as a reference so there may be a few changes on your version: To change the options mentioned, do so before you click the restore tab. Later versions of the client no longer prompt (11b) when restoring the system object. I've noticed the system file protection messages a few times and ignored them! See MS Knowledge base article Q124550 regarding the missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe. (http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q124550) This could happen if there are a different # of partitions or in different order (check boot.ini to see if pointing to proper partition). I'm not familiar with Dells - do they have a system partition - if so was it set up? I've seen this on NT once where it failed to boot, we booted with an external partition, ran a defrag and then it could boot - it might have been explaned by method 3 in the ms article. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -----Original Message----- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BMR TSM restore of W2K client This is from a co-worker doing some DR testing, in this case, restoring a W2K box, essentially doing BMR........ **************************************************************************** ************************** I am trying to recreate the restore procedures in the IBM redbook "Deploying Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows 2000". The procedure is outlined in the redbook indicated in chapter 6, starting on page 96. I am using a Dell, with Raid-5, Windows 2000 advanced server with all recent service packs. Server is part of workgroup, not a domain controller. Not in an AD environment. TSM 4.2.1.32 client for Windows 2000 I have built a test box, done several backups during the build to mimic a production server that changes over time. Wiped partition and recreated new RAID-5 partition with primary and logical drives The procedure follows as indicated hardware set up install same OS install service packs Ensure connectivity with TSM server Recreate drive partitions Install and configure TSM Run TSM Check consistency of system object Start TSM and select the restore tab ** At this point in the documentation there is a tip to change a setting in Edit / Preferences / General. The setting for Preferences is grayed out, and this tip therefore cannot be followed Restore the boot partition (parts a-e followed verbatim, including the no reboot indication) Restore the system object. This is where it gets odd. I am prompted for the Windows 2000 CD with the error message "Windows File Protection - files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability, Windows must restore the original version of these files. Insert your Windows 2000 Advanced server CD now". I have tried both the Cancel and inserting the CD with the same results Also, the 3 prompts indicated in 11b (during the restore process) are not displayed Restart the system. When the system restarts, message is "<win2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt" and the OS does not start as this is an essential file.The ntoskrnl is in the directory indicated. I have tried this several times with the same results. I am obviously missing something in the procedure, but do not know where this goes awry. Any help is appreciated.
